poem lists: Ms 0020, Box 3, Folder 5 (manuscripts) and Box 6, Folder 1 (clippings)
Ms 0020, Box 3, Folder 5: MANUSCRIPTS
Dated poems:
untitled, first line is “Oh cruel summer,” June 26, 1863 (two versions)
Song on my departure from Bergen for New York, September 1872
G. De C. Died July 12, 1875
Notebook of poems dated 1880-1881: Harvest (two versions), No Man’s Land,
The Little Whitehaired Mother (multiple versions), A Spring Madrigal, Tidal Waves, A Night’s Rest.
Undated prose:
Closing paragraphs of my article for Scribner’s (includes “Because we have had one century of dishonor – shall we have two”
Undated poems:
[Warned?] of God in a Dream [early version of A Dream]
“I Am Dying – God Bless You”
“Not as I Will”
“To have left undone the things we ought (not) to have done”
A Dead Hope
A Health in the Past
A Hymn is a Wing
A Lover’s Thought
A Mistake
A Tidal Wave [similar to Tidal Waves in notebook]
Absence
Apart
As by Fire
Bon Voyage
Burnt Offerings
Buttercups
Couleur de Rose
Danger
Dedication
Deeds & Words from the Persian
Farewell
Fra Luigi‘s marriage.
Freedom (two versions)
Going! Going! Gone! (two versions)
Growths
January, February, March, two versions, April, May, June, July, August, September (beginning “oh golden month”), December
Latitude unknown
Let’s Play
Love’s Victory
Measures
Mecca
Morn
My Dead
My Double
My Six
On the Picture of Marsyas by Elihu Vedder
Possessions
Quoth the Gravedigger’s Wife Quoth She (two versions)
Refrain
Release
Semitones
Something like that is no something something and hide behind Untitled
The Fulfilling of the Year
The Grace Receiving
The Measure of Scorn,
The Old Bell
The Old Homestead
The Palace of Gondoforus – A Legend of St. Thomas
The Parable of St. Christopher
The Penny Ye Meant to Gi’e
The Rapids
The Serf
The Story of Ruth
To one who complained of me for not writing about nature
Too Late
Twilight Night
Untitled poems, first lines:
[We far out Springs search?] / I know why she’s late…
How doth the little idle bee / enjoy each shiny hour…
Like ghosts the Benedictines…
Tis the voice of the sluggard…
Halfway home, my health, sweet drink…
Some lives are bright like torches…
Like a besieged city…
[several others, unclear where one poem stops and another begins]
Ms 0020, Box 6, Folder 1, CLIPPINGS
Newspaper clippings: poems thought to be by HHJ, many signed "H.H.," mostly undated.
Absence
Acquitted
Alms
Alms at the Beautiful Gate
Ariadne’s Farewell
As a Tale That is Told
Asters and Golden Rod
The Ass’s Journey
At Last
Aunt Jane’s Lesson
Avalanches
Bayard Taylor
Beginning to Sink
Belated
Best
Bridges
Chance
Charlotte Cushman
Cheated
Cheyenne Mountain
Chimes
The Christian’s Wings
“Close linking through his harmony”
Colorado Snow-Birds
Coming
Coming Across
Confession of Faith
Content
Coronation
Counterfeiters
Cross Words
A Crystal
David in the Wilderness (Feb. 25, 1874)
December
Decoration Day
Dedication
Deeds and Words [smaller text: [from the Persian]]
Demeter
The Diamond Cutters
Dick Comes In (Sept. 17, 1885)
“Did the Sky Shut?”
Distance
Doubt [in smaller text] A Parable.
Downfall
Enone
The Every-Day Darling
Evergreens
Expectancy
Farewell
The Fir-Tree and the Brook
The Flight of Doves
The Freedman
Friend Ahoy!
A Funeral March (March 2, 1871)
Gift
Glimpses
“Got any children? The Marshal said” (under the pseudonym Saxe-Holm)
Going! Going! Gone!
The Good Shepherd
The Grace of Receiving
Greenough’s Statue of Grief
The Hammers (Feb. 18, 1870)
A Happy Woman’s Fancy
He Remembereth
A Health to the Past
Her Eyes
Hereafter
Hostages
How the Cats Went to Boarding-School
The Idol Worshiper
In the Dark
In the Pass
In Time of Famine
The Ishmaelite
Joy
June
July
A Legend of Abraham
The Last Look (November? 1867)
Last Words
“Let’s Play!”
The Little White-Haired Mother (March 5, 1881)
Locusts and Wild Honey
Lost Houses
The Love of Hilda
Love’s Fulfilling
The Magic Armory
May (“Oh! month when they who love must love and wed,”)
May (“The voice of one going before, to make”) [We have both a printed and a manuscript copy]
A Measure of Hours
The Measure of Scorn
Message
A Miracle
Mordecai
Morn
Morning and Evening Songs
Morning-Glory
A Mother’s Farewell to a Voyager (Nov. 12, 1868)
My Bees
My Body Servant
My Double
My First Voyage Around the World
My Legacy
My New Friend
New Year’s Morning
Next of Kin
Noon
November
Now and Then
October (“Bending above the spicy woods which blaze”)
October (“The month of carnival of all the year,”)
October (“O suns and skies and clouds of June,”)
The Old Homestead
The Old Reaper
One Word
Opportunity
Ora Pro Nobis
Our Angels
Out of the Mouth of Babes
Owed [in smaller letters] to Christopher Columbus (Oct. 6, 1880)
A Parable
The Parable of Hassan
Parson William’s Sabbath-Breaking
Patience
Permission
The Pilgrim to the Crane
Polar Days
Poppies in the Wheat (May 12, 1869)
Popular Wedding Songs of Armenia
Possessions
Presence
The Present
The Prairie Dolly
The Prince is Dead! (under the name Helen Hunt)
The Queen’s Son
A Question
A Rain-Drop
Rapids
Refrain
Release
Renunciation
Resolve
Resurgam
Return to the Hills
Revenues
Roofless and Penniless, but Free (Jan 30 [no year given])
A Rose-Leaf (under the name Helen Jackson)
Santa Marina
Secrets
The Secret of Procyon
Service
The Shadow
Shadows of Birds
Shew-Bread
Smiles
So As by Fire (Dec. 27, 1869)
The Solitude of Sorrow
A Song of Labor
A Song of Noon
A Song of Obligation
Sources
The Sparrow’s Song
Spinning
Spoken
St. Sebald’s Miracle
Summer Again
A Sunrise (“He slept on a bed of roses”)
Sunrise (“I said to one whose eager face”)
The Teacher (Dec. 18, 1869)
Thanks to an Unknown Poet
Three Days
Thought
Tides
Tidings
To A.C.L.B.
To-Day
To Oliver Wendell Holmes on his seventieth birthday
Too Late
Torcello
Transplanted
Tribute R.W.E. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Triumph (“Ah, Triumph lies not in the goal we win,”)
Triumph (“Not he who rides through conquered city’s gate,”)
The True Ballad of Henry King of Poland. 1671
Truth
Two Comrades [title ripped in original]
Two Sundays
Two Truths
A Tyrolian Air (June 20, 1869)
An Unknown Man Respectably Dressed (“By the late Helen Jackson (“H.H.”)”)
The Village Lights
“The voice is the voice of a leader” (May 11, 1867)
Voyage
The Wallflower of the Ruins of Rome
The Wayside Christ
What O’clock?
When First the River Seeks the Sea
When the Kings Come
When the Tide Comes In
With Them that Do Rejoice
Wounded to Life
The Zone of Calms
